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sapereaudo · 02-09-2010, 10:59 PM

Thank you for your help. I didn't expect the creator of calibre himself to respond so swiftly! BTW, awesome program; the several days I had to live without it were chaos!

My solution, though similar to your suggestion was in fact different, so I'll post it in case anyone has similar problems. I think the problem was the Ubuntu package manager, but I'm not certain.

I run linux, not windows, so the directories and methods are of course different.
I uninstalled it, as you said, and then did a search for files with "calibre" in the name. It showed up (after "complete removal" with synaptic) in several places including /etc/bash_completion.d and /usr/bin as well as the directories that show in the error message in my first post. I ran "sudo nautilus" in terminal and navigated to each file, and deleted it. To be safe I then emptied my trash and restarted.
I reinstalled through synaptic. Same problem.
Again, I uninstalled exactly as above but reinstalled via the scary little "ubuntu software center" in my application menu. Same problem again.
I uninstalled yet again as above, but this time I reinstalled it via the terminal command:
sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()"
that i found at under "unsupported distributions". It asked me where to install it, so I input "/usr" and it installed without a problem. It now works perfectly!
It may be important to note that Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) will install version 0.6.13 if you use synaptic or the "sudo apt-get install" command, but when I installed using the former shell command mentioned above it installed version 0.6.38
Perhaps Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu is not handling the install right, and obviously the .deb version in their repository is outdated. I'm not a programmer or dev so I don't completely understand, but hopefully this info will help someone.

Thanks again for such a great free program! It's really better than the proprietary Sony version (that won't run on linux anyway).

02-09-2010, 10:59 PM	#3
sapereaudo Junior Member Posts: 2 Karma: 10 Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: Nashville, TN. USA Device: Sony PRS-505	Thank you for your help. I didn't expect the creator of calibre himself to respond so swiftly! BTW, awesome program; the several days I had to live without it were chaos! My solution, though similar to your suggestion was in fact different, so I'll post it in case anyone has similar problems. I think the problem was the Ubuntu package manager, but I'm not certain. I run linux, not windows, so the directories and methods are of course different. I uninstalled it, as you said, and then did a search for files with "calibre" in the name. It showed up (after "complete removal" with synaptic) in several places including /etc/bash_completion.d and /usr/bin as well as the directories that show in the error message in my first post. I ran "sudo nautilus" in terminal and navigated to each file, and deleted it. To be safe I then emptied my trash and restarted. I reinstalled through synaptic. Same problem. Again, I uninstalled exactly as above but reinstalled via the scary little "ubuntu software center" in my application menu. Same problem again. I uninstalled yet again as above, but this time I reinstalled it via the terminal command: sudo python -c "import urllib2; exec urllib2.urlopen('http://status.calibre-ebook.com/linux_installer').read(); main()" that i found at under "unsupported distributions". It asked me where to install it, so I input "/usr" and it installed without a problem. It now works perfectly! It may be important to note that Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) will install version 0.6.13 if you use synaptic or the "sudo apt-get install" command, but when I installed using the former shell command mentioned above it installed version 0.6.38 Perhaps Synaptic package manager in Ubuntu is not handling the install right, and obviously the .deb version in their repository is outdated. I'm not a programmer or dev so I don't completely understand, but hopefully this info will help someone. Thanks again for such a great free program! It's really better than the proprietary Sony version (that won't run on linux anyway).